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What do you like?

I really like the composition, very nice shot, you've captured the picture when the birds are in a very good position. I think the adjusted version is much better than the original, because of the brightness.

What would you improve?

This is just my opinion, but I would be tempted to crop the image a bit at the top to make the blue water part smaller. I just think that would give the photo a little more balance in terms of the colours in the background.

Hi Benst, never easy photographing birds on water on dull days, I'm no expert bug the birds look like Godwits rather than sandpipers to me.
I think the photo would benefit from removing the bird at the back as for me it brings nothing to the shot as its facing away from you.
Somewhere between the two shots would work for me, I think the first is alittle flat and the second a little to overdone.

Zozo@benst your revised version is certainly brighter - maybe a tad too much.. in my mind it is the lack of true contrast which let's this image down. to me, it looks like it was not a sunny/bright day (i know you state it as overcast) which would have brought out the gorgeous colours of the feathers and left little highlights in the water and maybe catchlights in eyes.
i don't feel that you gave yourself the best conditions - a brighter day would have given you so much more. :-)
i do know how it feels when one togs up and goes out with purpose only to be let down by the light. that's when i head for my kitchen and the macro lens - the kitchen faces NE so the light is constant, not changing sunny/dull.

21 February 2016

benstThanks Zozo!, much appreciated. Unfortunately I don't get much opportunity to pick my days .
Most of my photos are taken "on the run" , camera in the car while I am working , and photos snapped when the subjects come across my path.